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Khaitan & Co associate partners Iqbal Khan in Mumbai and Harsh Kumar in Delhi have been poached by Amarchand Mangaldas co-managing partners Shardul and Cyril Shroff respectively, who are setting up offices in each others’ territories.

It is understood that both have announced their upcoming departures within Khaitan and are likely to join the brothers’ offices when operational.

Sam

Khan is due to join the Mumbai office planned to be set up by Shardul Shroff.

Khan graduated from the London School of Economics (LSE) in 2006 with an LLB, completed his JD at Columbia in New York in 2008, and then joined Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison as an attorney. Before joining Khaitan in 2013 as a principal associate, he was an associate at Kirkland & Ellis in New York for nearly three years.

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Idiot - saina is a great player and has done more service to the country than you will every do in your life time. Show some respect and Stop wasting time. Partners will come and go, but the institution will go on.

Are you blind?He qualified in 2006 and joined KCO in 2013 as a Principal Associate. He became an Associate Partner only last year. Also, look at the places he's worked at, previously. Reason enough for him to have his no. of years cut short by 1-2 years, before being designated as an Associate Partner. If he stayed, he'd have become a Partner only after about 8 years PQE, which is normal for a bright guy.

Are you blind?He qualified in 2006 and joined KCO in 2013 as a Principal Associate. He became an Associate Partner only last year. Also, look at the places he's worked at, previously. Reason enough for him to have his no. of years cut short by 1-2 years, before being designated as an Associate Partner. If he stayed, he'd have become a Partner only after about 8 years PQE, which is normal for a bright guy.

He qualified in 2006 but did not start work till 2008. So it is barely 6 years to "Associate" Partner [...]

Can Kian please change the horrible-looking half-n-half picture of cyril and shardul. It looks like special effects more ghastly than ramgopal varmas last few movies have been used to create this half-n-half portrait. Thank you in anticipation.

Kian, are both of them being taken as Partners in the respective AMs? Partnership at AM (at least, once upon a time) used to come by only after a lot of internal assessments and scrutiny. Just wondering.

The promotions at Khaitan has diluted the respect for Partners, the infrastructure team has 5 or 6 partners and 2 associates at junior level!!!! The capital market team pays more in annual salary then last two years revenue!! Where do they get money from?

There is this new Sorcery which has been intrinsic to a mountain tribe residing on the outer boundaries of a small province in an East European country. I rather not discuss full details. However, the word is that this sorcery is called client billings. They say that the bigger and more versatile your client base and bigger deals the law firms close, the more likely they are to generate revenue.

Rumour says that KCO has somehow gotten their hand on this virgin sorcery. That could be the answer to where the money is coming from. The offices are also expanding. Some sorcery this. Sheesh.

khaitan should know money not every thing and stupid to give such bonus to guys with hardly 10 years and partners there are also to be blamed but for Haigreve most of the guys in delhi treat it like sarkari co

Hey looks like CAM, SAM and KCO are hiring truck loads in law schools and loads of money is being thrown at, hope they realize that such strategy only works in short term ...look at B Schools, money no longer interests many of these B sxhool grads...eventually the matrix and lockstep model will have spiral effect leading to escalation of salary costs and dip in profits, so bonuses will be curtailed. Dont you HR guys out there agree? What's the attrition rate of fresh graduates in such tier 1 firms? Heard its close to 50%!!!